From: TRANS <transfire@...>
Date: 2007-07-14T05:14:02+09:00
Subject: Inheritable mixin

Concept for Ruby 2.0...

What do you think of making Class not inherit Module, but instead make
them separate classes that both mixin "Inheritable" (or whatever you'd
like to call it)?

There are a few cases where a method belonging in Module doesn't
belong in Class, so thats' at least one indication that the current
relationship isn't quite right. A mixin seems like the right fit. In a
sense, the mixin would be to the class-level as Kernel is to the
instance-level.

The thought occurred to me while organizing Facets. I've been locking
at what methods might fit together into organization units, ie,
mixins, so far I've been able to successfully develop Indexable and
Stackable.

T.